等氮条件下有机无机肥配施对小麦光合特性和群体结构的影响

为寻求最佳有机肥无机肥配施方式,以山西农业大学培育的山农9801为供试材料,在山西农业大学试验田进行了低氮(270 kg·hm^(-2))、高氮(360 kg·hm^(-2))2个施氮量下无机肥及有机肥各为37 500 kg·hm^(-2)、75 000kg·hm^(-2)4个有机肥无机肥配施共6个处理的田间试验,研究一定量氮肥下不同混施量的有机肥料与无机肥料对小麦群体叶面积指数、群体结构、叶绿素含量及光合特性的影响。结果表明:高氮情况下,有机肥为75 000 kg·hm^(-2)的处理组的叶面积指数值最高;低氮情况下,有机肥为75 000 kg·hm^(-2)的处理组的群体结构表现最为合理;高氮情况下,有机肥为75 000 kg·hm^(-2)的处理组的旗叶叶绿素含量和旗叶净光合速率最高,综上得出高氮情况下,有机肥75 000 kg·hm^(-2)、无机肥228.3 kg·hm^(-2)处理组(F组)为最佳试验组。     

USLE/RUSLE模型中植被因子变化特征及其影响因素

植被因子是USLE/RUSLE模型中最重要的影响因子,其数值变化特征及其影响因素广受关注。以广东省五华县源坑水小流域2011—2013年的径流小区次降雨水沙观测数据为基础,分析了径流小区C值在不同时间尺度的变化特征及其受降雨、植被类型的影响。研究表明:(1)不同时段间C值存在一定波动,其中旱季的C值均大于雨季,夏秋两季的C值较大,且较为接近。各径流小区的C值普遍存在11、8、7月较大,6、5、1月较小的现象,且草本植物C值受植被覆盖度影响较大。(2)降雨量与径流小区C值呈正相关关系,桉树、松树、糖蜜草径流小区C值与次降雨量、各降雨量区间平均值的相关系数分别为0.360**、0.349**、0.291**,0.912*、0.909*、0.822,相较于草本植物,木本植物的C值受降雨影响更大,仅以植被盖度衡量C值有待商榷。(3)相较裸土小区,桉树、松树、糖蜜草小区2011—2013年的土壤流失减幅分别为14.2%、21.5%、23.2%,其C值分别为0.814、0.748、0.772,3种植物中糖蜜草与松树均具有相对较好的水保效益,桉树的水保效益稍逊。     

三江平原土壤动物群落多样性对CO2浓度升高的响应

为研究大气CO₂浓度升高条件下土壤动物的响应, 本文采用开顶式气室(OTC)控制大气CO₂浓度, 设置了3个梯度, 分别为低浓度370 ppm背景CO₂ (AC)、中浓度550 ppm CO₂ (EC1)和高浓度700 ppm CO₂ (EC2)。于2017年秋季取样并用改良Tullgren干漏斗法和Baermann湿漏斗分离土壤动物。结果表明: (1)共捕获土壤动物6,268头, 隶属于7纲15目, 优势类群为甲螨亚目, 占捕获量的88.13%; 常见类群为弹尾目和双翅目幼虫, 合计占捕获量的9%。不同CO₂浓度水平下, 优势类群(甲螨亚目)和常见类群(弹尾目、双翅目幼虫)相同, 但是稀有类群存在一定差异。(2) CO₂浓度升高显著增加了甲螨亚目的类群数和个体密度, 显著降低了弹尾目的类群数和个体密度, 对其他土壤动物无显著影响。(3)三江平原不同浓度条件下土壤动物的Shannon-Wiener多样性指数、Pielou均匀度指数均为AC > EC1 > EC2, 而优势度指数为EC2 > EC1 > AC, 丰富度指数为AC > EC2 > EC1。研究表明, 气候变化有可能影响土壤动物的群落结构以及土壤动物的多样性。     

Isoflurane Post-Treatment Improves Outcome after an Embolic Stroke in Rabbits

Application of commonly used volatile anesthetics after brain ischemia onset (post-treatment) provides neuroprotection in rodents. To further test its translational potential, this study was designed to determine whether isoflurane post-treatment induced neuroprotection in rabbits after embolic stroke. White male New Zealand rabbits received intra-carotid injection of clots when they were awake. Some rabbits were exposed to 2.5% isoflurane for 1 h at 5 min after the injection. Isoflurane post-treatment increased the tolerance of rabbits to the amount of clots. Isoflurane post-treatment also reduced brain infarct volumes and plasma S100B 3 days after the injection of 5 mg clots and improved neurological deficit scores after the stroke. Isoflurane post-treatment improves neurological outcome in rabbits after embolic stroke.     

Analysis of trichloroethylene-induced global DNA hypomethylation in hepatic L-02 cells by liquid chromatography–electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

Trichloroethylene (TCE), a major occupational and environmental pollutant, has been recently associated with aberrant epigenetic changes in experimental animals and cultured cells. TCE is known to cause severe hepatotoxicity; however, the association between epigenetic alterations and TCE-induced hepatotoxicity are not yet well explored. DNA methylation, catalyzed by enzymes known as DNA methyltransferases (DNMT), is a major epigenetic modification that plays a critical role in regulating many cellular processes. In this study, we analyzed the TCE-induced effect on global DNA methylation and DNMT enzymatic activity in human hepatic L-02 cells. A sensitive and quantitative method combined with liquid chromatography and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC–ESI-MS/MS) was validated and utilized for assessing the altered DNA methylation in TCE-induced L-02 cells. Quantification was accomplished in multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode by monitoring a transition pair of m/z 242.1 (molecular ion)/126.3 (fragment ion) for 5-mdC and m/z 268.1/152.3 for dG. The correlation coefficient of calibration curves between 5-mdC and dG was higher than 0.9990. The intra-day and inter-day relative standard derivation values (RSD) were on the range of 0.53–7.09% and 0.40–2.83%, respectively. We found that TCE exposure was able to significantly decrease the DNA methylation and inhibit DNMT activity in L-02 cells. Our results not only reveal the association between TCE exposure and epigenetic alterations, but also provide an alternative mass spectrometry-based method for rapid and accurate assessment of chemical-induced altered DNA methylation in mammal cells.     

酒精促PC12细胞凋亡及对神经鞘磷脂合酶表达和活性的影响

目的 观察酒精诱导PCI2细胞凋亡及其凋亡过程中神经鞘磷脂合酶活性和mRNA表达量的变化.方法 MTr法测定酒精对PCI2细胞增殖的抑制作用.Hoeelmt33258染色荧光显微镜观察PCI2细胞凋亡形态学变化.DNA琼脂糖凝胶电泳检测细胞凋亡梯状DNA条带.RT-PCR法检测酒精对PCI2细胞SMSI和SMS2 mRNA表达的影响.薄层层析法测定SMS的活性.结果 PCI2细胞去血清培养24 h,酒精浓度在100、200、400和800 mmoL/L时,细胞存活率分别是单纯去血清的87.54%、70.73%、57.89%和51.70%,表现出较强的细胞增殖抑制作用（P〈0.05）;细胞核形态学变化显示酒精处理组凋亡细胞增多,表现染色质凝集,细胞核变小、核碎裂成碎片等典型细胞凋亡特征性变化,凋亡率随着酒精浓度的增大而升高,去血清组的酒精浓度为100、200和300 mmol/L时,细胞凋亡率呈剂量依赖关系;琼脂糖凝胶电泳可见酒精处理组有不同程度的DNA断裂,显示凋亡细胞典型的梯状DNA.RT-PCR检测酒精对PCI2细胞SMS转录水平结果显示,不同浓度酒精作用于PCI2细胞0.5 h,SMSI表达量无显著变化,当作用时间达1h和2 h,SMSl表达量显著增加,并呈剂量依赖性,而SMS2的mRNA表达则不受酒精作用的影响;薄层层析法检测细胞总SMS活性显示,不同浓度酒精作用2 h,细胞SMS活性随酒精浓度增加而升高.结论 酒精可导致PCI2细胞凋亡并与酒精浓度呈正相关.酒精致PCI2细胞凋亡过程中SMSl的mRNA表达量增高,酶活性增强,提示酒精致PCI2细胞凋亡作用与鞘磷脂循环有关.     

Haplotype-based association analysis in cohort and nested case-control studies

Genetic epidemiologic studies often collect genotype data at multiple loci within a genomic region of interest from a sample of unrelated individuals. One popular method for analyzing such data is to assess whether haplotypes, i.e., the arrangements of alleles along individual chromosomes, are associated with the disease phenotype or not. For many study subjects, however, the exact haplotype configuration on the pair of homologous chromosomes cannot be derived with certainty from the available locus-specific genotype data (phase ambiguity). In this article, we consider estimating haplotype-specific association parameters in the Cox proportional hazards model, using genotype, environmental exposure, and the disease endpoint data collected from cohort or nested case-control studies. We study alternative Expectation-Maximization algorithms for estimating haplotype frequencies from cohort and nested case-control studies. Based on a hazard function of the disease derived from the observed genotype data, we then propose a semiparametric method for joint estimation of relative-risk parameters and the cumulative baseline hazard function. The method is greatly simplified under a rare disease assumption, for which an asymptotic variance estimator is also proposed. The performance of the proposed estimators is assessed via simulation studies. An application of the proposed method is presented, using data from the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study.